Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 200

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§ 50.

THE PROCESS OF SCIENCE

[Div. II

mind was at hand to convict its predecessor of error. Only let it be remembered, that in this section we do by no means refer to Theology simply, nor even esj^ecially. Sciacuter

is science which has the entirety and only when we come to Theology questions be answered, to which the entirely

ence, as here considered, of things as its object

may

the special

;

peculiar character of this holy science gives occasion. § 50.

Our

The Process of Science

proposition that there are two kinds of science

is,

merely the accommodation to a The two sciences must never be coordilinguistic usage. nated with each other. In fact, no one can be convinced that there is more than one science, and that which announces itself as science by the side of, or in opposition to, this can never be acknowledged as such in the absolute As soon as the thinker of palingenesis has come to sense. that point in the road where the thinker of naturalism parts company with him, the latter's science is no longer anything

from the nature of the

case,

to the former but "science falsely so called."

the naturalistic thinker

is

bound

to contest the

science for that which the student of the derives from his premises.

That which

"wisdom lies

Similarly

name of

of

God"

outside of the

realm of these different premises is common to both, but that which is governed, directly or indirectly, by these premises comes to stand entirely differently to the one from

what

it

is

Always

does to the other.

that only one

is

in this sense, of course,

right and in touch with actual reality, but

unable to convince the other of wrong.

It will

once be

decided, but not until the final consummation of all things. For though it must be granted, that in what is called the moral and social "Banquerott der Wissenschaft," even now a test is often put in part to the twofold problem and though it is equally clear that every investigator will come to know ;

tills

decision at his death

that, of necessity, the

:

yet this does not change the fact

two kinds

of science continue to spin

two threads, as long as the antithesis is maintained between naturalism and palingenesis; and it is this very their

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